It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
Dorothea LangeStichwörter: photography lion
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
Susan SontagStichwörter: art photography news novelty shock
To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.
Susan SontagStichwörter: photography compassion humanity suffering conscience images
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
Susan SontagStichwörter: photography society addiction consumerism aesthetics
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
Diane ArbusStichwörter: art photography photographs
What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.
Diane ArbusStichwörter: art photography photographs
One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.
Diane ArbusStichwörter: art photography photographs
You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think as much as you want before and after, but in the moment, man, you have to, like, let go.
Blue GhostGhostStichwörter: photography turkish
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
Nick HarkawayStichwörter: photography lies
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Tony BennStichwörter: photography
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